Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Tuesday, Sept. 23rd: Video and Notes on Periodic Table

BIG IDEA: You can see many elements in the world around you.

1. Warm-up: Draw and share your data table with someone. See Notes #1 if you need an example of a data table.
2. Video, The Periodic Table, and worksheet. (See Dr. Rico if you missed the video and need to check it out from her.)
3. Notes #4: The Periodic Table. Hand out elements to look at when doing the notes.
4. Assign homework, due Wednesday.

1. PT worksheet. Due Wednesday.
Honors Chem Homework: Go to library or get on internet tonight, explore an element (sign up for one). Make up a 8.5x11 poster of your element with 5 pieces of interesting information on it about the element. Include how the element was discovered, and what its atomic structure is. Due Thursday.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Monday, Sept. 22nd: Coloring the Periodic Table

BIG IDEA: You need to memorize the patterns in the Periodic Table!!

1. Chemcatalyst: name an alkaline metal, an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a metalloid, a halogen, and a noble gas. Which are metals, and which are non-metals? How do you know?
2. (Yu and Rico only) Take Quiz #2. Collect homework, especially the procedures.
3. Color the periodic table. Hand out elements to look at as the tables are colored.
4. Review information on periodic table, meanings of numbers, patterns, etc.
5. Hand out the little sticky periodic tables.
6. Go over two examples of quarter projects that are strong. Show data tables again. (See Notes #1 for an example of the Data Table
7. Write down homework on H.A.S and in planner.

Homework:
1. Finish coloring your periodic table and finish the worksheet. Due Tuesday.
2. Design a table for your data collection on your experiment.
Honors chem.: Find three other versions of the periodic table to share tomorrow.

Friday, Sept. 19th:

BIG IDEA: There are patterns in the layout of the Periodic Table

1. Chemcatalyst, pg. 33, "Breaking the Code."
2. Do the activity, "Breaking the Code," pgs. 33-34
3. Debrief the activity, explain arrangement of the Periodic Table.
4. Collect New Language, Copper Cycle, Create a Table, and Breaking the Code.
5. Begin coloring the periodic table.
4. Assign homework.

Homework: 1. TYPE up question, hypothesis, procedure, and variables for your experiment. Improve on your procedure as indicated by your teacher. You may NOT start your experiment until you have an APPROVED procedure from your teacher.
2. Once you have an approved procedure, please complete the data collection for trial 1 of your Quarter Project. NOTE: you must take pictures and email them to your teacher for proof of experiment, as well as submit a data table. Data due Mon., Sept. 29th. START NOW IF YOU HAVE A PROJECT THAT NEEDS A WEEK’S WORTH OF TIME!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Thursday, Sept. 18th, 2008

BIG IDEA: The periodic table is one way to arrange the elements!

1. Write down the homework; go over the old homework; make sure the homework on pg. 29 is clear (lab report on Copper Cycle lab).
2. Add the Copper Cycle drawing to Notes #3. You can see it in the Chemistry notebook, please ask Dr. Rico for it.
3. Complete "Create a Table," pg. 30-31.
4. Debrief of "Create a Table."
5. Demonstration of reactivity of calcium and magnesium.

6. (Mr. Yu's class only) Chemcatalyst: Breaking the Code, pg. 33-35.
7. (Mr. Yu's class only) “Breaking the Code” worksheet. Be sure to do the debrief as suggested in the manual, and the Check-In.

Homework: text, pg. 35-37, Periodic table homework that goes with Breaking the Code. Due Monday. Don't forget pg 29, lab report, also due Monday.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Wednesday, Sept. 17th: Mendeleyev's Table of Elements

BIG IDEA: Elements have common properties. How do you arrange them?

1. Finish Notes #3: Elements, Compounds, and Chemical Reactions
2. Go over the homework on pgs. 6, 14, and the half sheet. Review the Penny Lab corrections and the Whatsa Matter and All That Glitters work. BE SURE TO CORRECT YOUR WORK WHEN WE GO OVER THE WORK!!!! There are too many mistakes that SHOULD HAVE been corrected when we went over it in class!!
3. Correct Quiz #1, correct your own quiz. Those with a failing grade should talk to their teacher to ask about make-ups. (Dr. Rico's class can make up the quiz to 80% at lunch.)
4. Chemcatalyst, “Create a Table, pg. 29
5. Do activity, “Create a Table," pgs. 30-31.

Homework: Write up the report after “What Goes Around.” See text, pg. 27, and follow the directions. BE SURE TO DO A COMPLETE JOB! Due Monday, Sept. 22nd.